Take a look at how Virat Kohli has performed against New Zealand, the numbers will Surprise you

The Indian national cricket team will take on New Zealand in a Test bilateral series of 3 matches. The first Test begins on October 16 (Wednesday) at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. Fulfilling the potential of the team, which recently performed extensive home campaigns against the Test and T20I series with Bangladesh, the Indian men’s cricket team is gearing up to put up a bigger performance against the Kiwis in a bid to win the series and remain on top in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 points standings.

Therefore, If India manages to 3-0 the Kiwis, then it ‘s safe to say that the team has booked a place in the WTC 2025 final next year, which is scheduled to take place at the historic Lord’s.

Indian batters have in fact been in red hot form this calendar year, so there would be a lot asked from the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant. Captain Rohit Sharma also contributed with the bat, scoring a couple of centuries in 8 Tests played in 2024 alone. However, the main problem is that star batsman Virat Kohli is currently out of sorts.

In the year, the former Indian captain has barely made 395 runs in a total of 19 innings across 16 international games played so far in 2024. And for India, he got to the fifty-run mark just once. Ahead of the India tour of Australia which will see a five-match Test series, Kohli will want to score something against New Zealand and help himself as well as quieten the naysayers.

Here’s a look at Virat Kohli’s record in Tests against New Zealand:

Runs: Up to this point, Virat has made a total of 866 runs in 11 Tests against the New Zealand team. He featured his first red-ball game against the Kiwis in August 2012, held in the city of Hyderabad, and scored 58 runs in the first inning. In the only Test played against the New Zealand team in the city of Bengaluru which is also the site for the first Test, Kohli managed to scores of 103, 51* runs.

Together with the Kiwis, he has played four Tests in New Zealand where he played four Tests based there and scored 252 runs plus he has 557 runs in six Test matches played in the Indian subcontinent. He has also played one Test match against New Zealand in England where he scored 44 runs and 13 runs in that order.

100s and best score: He has one double century, two centuries and three fifties registered to his name in the 11 Tests he has played against New Zealand. He was the top scorer with 103 runs in the Test match held at Bengaluru in the year 2012 and went on to score an unbeaten 105 runs in the second inning of the Test match at Wellington, New Zealand in the year 2014. The highest amount of runs that he has scored in Tests matches with the Kiwis is 211 runs which he scored in the first innings of the third Test that was played in Indore between 8th – 11th October 2016.

Ducks: In Test matches with New Zealand, Virat has received a batting opportunity on 21 occasions and has failed to open his account on only one. However that was during the first innings of the last Test match played between India and New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai from 3rd to 6th December 2021.

Average: Kohlis Test batting average against New Zealand is 45.57, which is respectable. The figure is 55.70 for Test matches played in India and falls down to 36.00 for Tests played in New Zealand.

Kohli will get a chance to become the third batsman after Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar to score 1000 runs against New Zealand in Test matches for Indian cricketers during the upcoming three-match Test series. Currently, he has a total of 866 runs.

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